Care home group invests £17m to boost carers’ pay amid workforce challenges
One of the UK’s biggest care home groups plans to bring the national living wage increase in early and invest £17 million to boost carers’ salaries in a bid to
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Tag: Recruitment / Retention
Almost 400,000 on care lists amid ‘rapidly deteriorating’ situation, social services leaders warn
Almost 400,000 people are on social care ‘waiting lists’, care bosses estimate, as they warn of a “rapidly deteriorating” situation for older and disabled people this winter. An estimated 204,241
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Engage: How employers are helping shape the social care sector through use of workforce data
As Skills for Care celebrate the official launch of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) their CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on the impact that those using the service
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Care home residents neglected and dying alone amid dangerously low staffing levels, union warns
Care home residents are dying alone and their everyday needs are c” because staffing levels are at such a “dangerously low” level, research suggests. People in residential care are being
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Michael Gove set for ‘urgent’ talks with Prime Minister on social care recruitment problems
Michael Gove has said he will meet Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Boris Johnson this week for “urgent” talks on the recruitment and retention of social care workers. This comes
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Minister warns NHS faces winter capacity crisis because of care home staffing shortage, not Covid
The NHS faces a bed-blocking and capacity crisis this winter because of a staff shortage in care homes, ministers have been warned. The Government was told by Conservative MP Mark
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More nurses and midwives leaving profession amid warning on pandemic pressures
The number of nurses and midwives leaving the professions has risen amid a warning more departures could follow without further efforts to tackle the pressures on both occupations brought on
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Government urged to follow other sectors and offer cash bonuses to retain social care staff
Social care staff should be given a bonus to stop them leaving for other jobs, health leaders have said, as they warned the NHS faces the “most difficult winter in
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Nursing leaders warn of ‘unsustainable, untenable conditions’ in health and social care services
Nursing leaders have highlighted 10 pressures on health and social care services which they say have created “unsustainable, untenable” conditions. A report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said
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NHS ‘on its knees’ with ‘chronic workforce shortages’ heaping pressure on overstretched staff
The NHS is “on its knees”, leading health experts have warned, as a raft of data for England shows the service buckling under pressure. The King’s Fund health think tank
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